Dallas Invents is a weekly look at U.S. patents granted with a connection to the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Listings include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. Patent activity can be an indicator of future economic growth, as well as the development of emerging markets and talent attraction. By tracking both inventors and assignees in the region, we aim to provide a broader view of the region’s inventive activity. Listings are organized by Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC).

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of May 21, 2024 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

121 patents granted
Ranked No. 9 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 12
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 13
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 2
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 10
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 4
G: PHYSICS 36
H: ELECTRICITY 3

Design: 10

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano) 10
Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas) 9
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR) 6
United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio) 5
Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) 3
Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin) 3
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI) 3
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) 3
ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA) 2

UNASSIGNED 9

TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Bradley J. Garcia (Louisville, KY) 2
Christopher M. Bulpitt (Los Angeles, CA) 2
Gabrielle Davis (Denton) 2
Lloyd R. Holland (Georgetown, KY) 2
Michael C. Greenlee (Paris, KY) 2
Mingwei Shan (Frisco) 2
Nolan Serrao (Plano) 2
Scottie L. Foster (Lawrenceburg, KY) 2
Steven L. Yoder (Coppell) 2
Victor Kwak (Frisco) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

H U M A N N E C E S S I T I E S

Impact protection suit
Patent No. 11986040

Inventor(s): Burnett Davis, Jr. (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Sam Sokhansanj PLLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17385144 on 07/26/2021 (1030 days app to issue)

Abstract: A unibody impact protection body suit apparatus that provides a secure fit to a user, provides spacing between the head of the user and the interior of the head region of the suit, provides face and shoulder protection, and situation awareness prior to impact to help prevent various head, neck, shoulder, upper body, and spinal injuries to a user in the game of football or other contact sport. In particular, the impact protection suit includes a head region having an interior wall region, a shoulder region, and a torso region. Here, the impact protection suit is configured such that the head region provides spacing between a user’s head and the interior wall region to help minimize or prevent various, head, neck, and spine injuries. In addition, the suit may also include various proximity sensors and audio-visual notification interfaces for alerting the user of impending impact from an opposing player.

[A42B] HATS; HEAD COVERINGS (headbands, head-scarves A41D 20/00, A41D 23/00)

Drinking vessel with multiple compartments
Patent No. 11986108

Inventor(s): Jerry Rixter (Sachse, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17993503 on 11/23/2022 (545 days app to issue)

Abstract: A drinking vessel assembly for containing multiple fluids includes a container with a plurality of discrete compartments for containing one or more fluids. Each of a plurality of caps covers one of the compartments. A lid has is rotatably coupled to the container and has an opening that is positionable in each of a plurality of selection positions such that the opening exposes a selected one of the caps. A locking assembly engages the lid and the container to secure the lid in one of the selection positions.

[A47G] HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT (book-ends A47B 65/00; knives B26B)

Robotic joint revision system and method
Patent No. 11986247

Inventor(s): Cyrus Abbaschian (Frisco, TX), Jeff Fox (Frisco, TX), Joshua Haney (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Revision Robotics Surgical Innovations, LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Polsinelli PC (Local + 15 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17201976 on 03/15/2021 (1163 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for prosthetic implant revision surgery may include a robot having a robotic arm for attaching multiple surgical tools. The robot may generate a surgical plan for attaching the surgical tools to the robotic arm (e.g., a large diameter wheel, an in-line cutting tip, a posterior curved cradle, a reciprocal saw, a long burr, a trephine reamer, an osteotome, a keel remover, etc.) and performing the steps to remove an anterior flange/cap of a prosthetic knee and debond cement from bone within the intramedullary canal of a tibia or femur. The robot may include cameras and/or tracking devices for mapping/generating a three-dimensional model of an operating space and the implant, and determine precise planes and angles for approaching the implant with the surgical tools. Accordingly, the systems and methods may perform revision surgery with less bone loss than previous techniques and may result in more reproducible outcomes.

[A61B] DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (analysing biological material G01N, e.g. G01N 33/48)

Wearable heart rate monitoring device for infants
Patent No. 11986279

Inventor(s): Abhishek Ramani (Grapevine, TX), Justin Hoang (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Pergament Cepeda LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17180460 on 02/19/2021 (1187 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various embodiments of a method and a device for monitoring the health of an infant are disclosed. A wearable infant monitoring device comprising a sensing module [b]170[/b] comprising: a heart rate sensor [b]150[/b] configured to provide output data corresponding to heart rate of the infant wearing the infant monitoring device; a microcontroller [b]100[/b] configured to receive and transmit output data; a vibration motor [b]140[/b] configured to vibrate whenever the heart rate of the infant falls below a customized range; a BLE module [b]110[/b] in operational unity with the microcontroller that transmits heart rate data to a user on an individual computing device application [b]120[/b]; a computer device application configured to receive and process the output data and generate the infant’s heart rate. A method of monitoring an infant’s heart rate using the wearable heart rate monitoring device comprising the heart rate sensor [b]150[/b] collecting output data, wherein the output data provides information about the infant’s heart rate; the microcontroller [b]100[/b] receiving and transmitting the output data to the BLE module; the BLE module [b]110[/b] transmitting the output data directly to a user computing device application, which computing device application processes the output data and generates the infant heart rate.

[A61B] DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (analysing biological material G01N, e.g. G01N 33/48)

Passenger identification and profile mapping via brainwave monitoring
Patent No. 11986309

Inventor(s): Chungchih Chou (Ann Arbor, MI), Muhamed K. Farooq (Ann Arbor, MI), Sean P. Rodrigues (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17226713 on 04/09/2021 (1138 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure is related configuring a vehicle according to a user profile, where an individual user profile can be selected from a registry containing one or more user profiles using electroencephalogram (EEG). An additional biometric, such as gait, can also be used. The user profiles can include a variety of the user preferences, such as the preferred climate, seat settings, mode of payment, route to take, and more. A mobile device can also be used to add a layer of security and privacy, where the mobile device has sole access to the user’s user profile.

[A61B] DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (analysing biological material G01N, e.g. G01N 33/48)

Base station assembly for an operating room table
Patent No. 11986426

Inventor(s): Frederick H. Sklar (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Griggs Bergen LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18502820 on 11/06/2023 (197 days app to issue)

Abstract: A base station assembly for an operating room table is disclosed. In one embodiment, the base station assembly includes a base station that is secured to the operating room table. The base station includes an arcuate rail member with a selectively moveable clamp attached thereto. A vertical support arm extends from the selectively moveable clamp to provide selective attachment to a surgical accessory, such as a retractor arm, armrest, or image guidance reference frame. The base station assembly provides surgical accessory support that may be moved and adjusted by a surgeon at any time during an operation without contaminating a surgical field and without assistance from circulating operating room personnel.

[A61G] TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS (appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk A61H 3/00); OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES (embalming corpses A01N 1/00)

Appendage massaging devices comprising artificial muscles
Patent No. 11986439

Inventor(s): Frederick Mau (McKinney, TX), Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16883178 on 05/26/2020 (1456 days app to issue)

Abstract: An appendage massaging device that includes an appendage wrap having an inner band and an outer layer and one or more artificial muscles disposed between the inner band and the outer layer of the appendage wrap. Each of the one or more artificial muscles include a housing having an electrode region and an expandable fluid region, a dielectric fluid housed within the housing, and an electrode pair positioned in the electrode region of the housing. The electrode pair includes a first electrode fixed to a first surface of the housing and a second electrode fixed to a second surface of the housing. The electrode pair is actuatable between a non-actuated and an actuated state such that actuation from the non-actuated state to the actuated state directs the dielectric fluid into the expandable fluid region, expanding the expandable fluid region thereby applying pressure to the inner band of the appendage wrap.

[A61H] PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY (electrotherapy, magnetotherapy, radiation therapy, ultrasound therapy A61N)

Compositions for and method of treating acid-base disorders
Patent No. 11986490

Inventor(s): Dawn Parsell Otto (Cedar Park, TX), Gerrit Klaerner (Hillsborough, CA), Jerry M. Buysse (Los Altos, CA), Jun Shao (Fremont, CA)
Assignee(s): Renosis, Inc. (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: Culhane Meadows PLLC (Local + 4 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17678303 on 02/23/2022 (818 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides, inter alia, pharmaceutical compositions for and methods of treating an animal, including a human, and methods of preparing such compositions. In certain embodiments, the pharmaceutical compositions contain nonabsorbable pharmaceutical composition and may be used, for example, to treat eubicarbonatemic metabolic acidosis.

[A61K] PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES (devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms A61J 3/00; chemical aspects of, or use of materials for deodorisation of air, for disinfection or sterilisation, or for bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles A61L; soap compositions C11D)

Wound dressings and applications thereof
Patent No. 11986561

Inventor(s): Kytai T. Nguyen (Grand Prairie, TX)
Assignee(s): BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX), THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (University Park, PA)
Law Firm: Meunier Carlin Curfman LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17499221 on 10/12/2021 (952 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one aspect, compositions and wound dressings are described herein. In some embodiments, a composition or wound dressing described herein comprises a mesh formed from a plurality of biodegradable polymer fibers; a first active agent dispersed in the biodegradable polymer fibers; a plurality of biodegradable polymer particles disposed in the mesh; and a second active agent dispersed in the biodegradable polymer particles. The particles can be disposed within the interiors of the fibers of the mesh or between the fibers of the mesh. In another aspect, a composition or wound dressing described herein comprises a first perforated mesh formed from a first plurality of biodegradable polymer fibers; and a second perforated mesh formed from a second plurality of biodegradable polymer fibers, wherein the second perforated mesh is disposed on the first perforated mesh in a stacked configuration and the first and second perforated meshes have different degrees of perforation.

[A61L] METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICAL ARTICLES (preservation of bodies or disinfecting characterised by the agent employed A01N; preserving, e.g. sterilising, food or foodstuffs A23; preparations for medical, dental or toilet purposes A61K) [4]

Medicament delivery device
Patent No. 11986634

Inventor(s): Andrew Nelson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Sanofi (Paris, , FR)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17526268 on 11/15/2021 (918 days app to issue)

Abstract: A medicament delivery device includes a device housing for placing on the skin of a patient, the housing including a needle aperture; a needle for injecting a medicament, the needle arranged to pass through the needle aperture; and sensors configured to provide a signal when the housing is placed on the skin of the patient. The sensors are arranged around the needle aperture.

[A61M] DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D 7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F 13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J 1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L; magnetotherapy using magnetic elements placed within the body A61N 2/10); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR [5]

Autoinjector apparatus
Patent No. 11986643

Inventor(s): Neal Johnston (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): AMGEN INC. (Thousand Oaks, CA)
Law Firm: MARSHALL, GERSTEIN BORUN LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17147659 on 01/13/2021 (1224 days app to issue)

Abstract: An autoinjector apparatus is disclosed which comprises a single-use cassette and an autoinjector. The cassette comprises a housing and a sleeve movably disposed in the housing. A syringe may be disposed in the sleeve and secured therein with a lock cap. The lock cap is affixed to a distal end of the sleeve and contacts the distal end of the syringe. A shield remover extends through an opening in a proximal end of the housing for removing a needle shield which covers a needle of the syringe. A cassette identification arrangement is provided on a surface of the housing to enable the autoinjector to identify the cassette. The autoinjector is provided with a detector for reading the cassette identification arrangement.

Golf irons with sealed undercut
Patent No. 11986710

Inventor(s): Brian J. Kammerer (Fort Worth, TX), Matt Daraskavich (Grapevine, TX), Michael Pinto (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Karsten Manufacturing Corporation (Phoenix, AZ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17348632 on 06/15/2021 (1071 days app to issue)

Abstract: A golf club head includes a body, a first polymeric insert, and a second polymeric insert. The body includes a face, a sole, and a rear wall that collectively define an undercut volume. The first polymeric insert is provided within the undercut volume to define a sealed cavity within the undercut volume; and, the second polymeric insert is secured to the body and defines an open cavity extending from the rear wall toward the face.

[A63B] APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT (apparatus for passive exercising, massage A61H)

O P E R A T I O N S & T R A N S P O R T

Electrostatic air filter for electric vehicle motors
Patent No. 11986759

Inventor(s): Ryohei Tsuruta (Ann Arbor, MI), Shailesh N. Joshi (Ann Arbor, MI), Umesh Gandhi (Farmington Hills, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17107504 on 11/30/2020 (1268 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle comprising a wheel with an associated air-cooled motor, and a ventilation path for passing outside air from outside the vehicle into the motor. An electrostatic device is disposed proximate to the ventilation path. When the electrostatic device is energized, particles or debris in the outside air are attracted toward or repelled from the electrostatic device, such that the particles or debris are removed from the outside air before the outside air enters the motor.

[B01D] SEPARATION (separating solids from solids by wet methods B03B, B03D, by pneumatic jigs or tables B03B, by other dry methods B07; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high-voltage electric fields B03C; centrifuges B04B; vortex apparatus B04C; presses per se for squeezing-out liquid from liquid-containing material B30B 9/02) [5]

Using occluding fluids to augment additive manufacturing processes
Patent No. 11986994

Inventor(s): Benjamin Robert Lund (Dallas, TX), Caleb Lund (Dallas, TX), Xun Han (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Adaptive 3D Technologies, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett Dunner, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17345139 on 06/11/2021 (1075 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the use of occluding fluids, such as a high-density fluid (a ‘z-fluid’) or a low-density fluid (an ‘a-fluid’), to displace resin within a vat during 3D printing. Further, an a-fluid may act as a protective boundary for a 3D printing resin wherein the a-fluid sits on top of the printing resin. Another embodiment of the disclosure provides a process of assessing which regions of a computer-aided design (CAD) model take advantage of a buoying force supplied by the occluding fluid, such that fewer support structures are needed for printing a final CAD model compared to printing the CAD model without the occluding fluid.

[B29C] SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B 11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B 37/00-B32B 41/00) [4]

Molding device for casting an optical article with wafer on top, corresponding method and optical article
Patent No. 11987016

Inventor(s): Carlos Gonzalez (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, , FR)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17259008 on 07/11/2019 (1776 days app to issue)

Abstract: A molding device for casting an optical article with a thermoset resin the optical article defining two opposed main surfaces, one of which being formed by an optical functional wafer, the molding device comprising: a. a molding element ([b]2[/b]) forming a rear or a front part of a casting mold b. a gasket ([b]3[/b]) intended to surround the molding element c. an initially curved wafer ([b]4[/b]) defining a predetermined curvature depending on one of the two main surfaces of the optical article to be molded d. a closing element ([b]6[/b]) defining in a closing position in which the peripheral part of the wafer on the gasket is pinched, a pouring space between the molding element, the gasket and the wafer e. spacing means ([b]9[/b]) interposed between the wafer and the molding element to define an internal volume between the wafer and the closing element, the spacing means, wafer and closing element being configured to form a set hermetic to the resin to be poured into the molding device the closing member occupies a closing position.

[B29D] PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE (making granules B29B 9/00; making preforms B29B 11/00) [4]

Temperature regulation of vehicle charging components
Patent No. 11987142

Inventor(s): Charlie Yang (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17214044 on 03/26/2021 (1152 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for temperature regulation of a charging system. A fluid is provided within a channel formed between a charging component of the charging system in a vehicle and a regulation jacket that surrounds the charging component. The charging component of the charging system is cooled via the fluid.

[B60L] PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K 1/00, B60K 6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K 17/12, B60K 17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C 15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D 1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H 1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES [4]

Transport energy transfer using real-time cost information
Patent No. 11987144

Inventor(s): Maximilian Parness (Takoma Park, MD), Norman Lu (Fairview, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17147551 on 01/13/2021 (1224 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, at a charging station, a first amount of energy from a transport at a first level and at a time and providing, at the charging station, a second amount of energy to the transport at a level less than the first level at another time.

System and method for reducing battery overconsumption in a fuel cell system
Patent No. 11987149

Inventor(s): Andrew Sata (Irvine, CA), Christopher M. Bulpitt (Los Angeles, CA), Daniel Charles Folick (Long Beach, CA), Jared Farnsworth (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SNELL WILMER LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17405841 on 08/18/2021 (1007 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for reducing overconsumption of power in a vehicle includes a power source including a battery having a state of charge (SOC), and a fuel cell stack that generates electricity. The system further includes an electronic control unit (ECU) coupled to the power source and designed to receive a power request corresponding to a requested amount of power from the power source. The ECU is further designed to determine a fuel cell power amount corresponding to an amount of the electricity generated by the fuel cell stack to achieve the requested amount of power. The ECU is further designed to determine an overconsumption event when a current power consumption corresponding to a total amount of power being drawn from the power source is greater than the power request. The ECU is further designed to increase the fuel cell power amount in response to determining the overconsumption event.

Vehicles and vehicle systems for operating powered running boards in an alarm deterrent mode
Patent No. 11987207

Inventor(s): Alexander L. Paradis (Ann Arbor, MI), Clinton Williams (Saline, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17494395 on 10/05/2021 (959 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle including a powered running board, a motor for positioning the powered running board between a stowed position and a deployed position, a sensor configured to capture data of activity around the vehicle, and an electronic control unit configured to process the data captured by the sensor to detect an unauthorized event around the vehicle, and operate the motor to repeatedly move the powered running board in a predetermined pattern based on at least one of position and a speed in response to the sensor detecting an unauthorized event around the vehicle.

[B60R] VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (fire prevention, containment or extinguishing specially adapted for vehicles A62C 3/07)

Drive system controls architecture for OEM interface and services
Patent No. 11987257

Inventor(s): Arlo C. Eitzer (Ann Arbor, MI), Christopher M. Bulpitt (Los Angeles, CA), Daniel K. Lim (Canton, MI), Jonathan J. Sander (Greenville, OH), Laura E. Bower (Whitmore Lake, MI), Luke A. Rippelmeyer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17539709 on 12/01/2021 (902 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods provide a drive system control architecture that comprises a seamless interface between original equipment manufacturer (OEM) vehicle systems or components (e.g., accelerator pedal, brake pedal, accessory components, etc.) and third-party (or non-OEM) vehicle systems or components (e.g., motor/generator (MG) and inverter systems, fuel cell and battery systems, transmission, etc.). A universal interface implemented in a vehicle may receive a request for a specified amount of torque from one or more components of a first set of vehicle components, and may determine a balance between one or more components of a second set of vehicle components for delivering the specified amount of torque. The universal interface may then instruct the one or more components of the second set of vehicle components to deliver a commensurate portion of the specified amount of torque.

[B60W] CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT [2006.01]

Winged tiltrotor aircraft
Patent No. 11987350

Inventor(s): Brent Chadwick Ross (Flower Mound, TX), Steven Ray Ivans (Ponder, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17303631 on 06/03/2021 (1083 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tandem tiltrotor aircraft in which the tiltrotor assemblies are operably coupled at the forward and aft ends of the fuselage of the aircraft is disclosed. The tiltrotor assemblies are capable of rotating between a vertical lift position and a horizontal flight position. The in-line location of the tiltrotor assemblies allow the aircraft to have the vertical take-off and landing capabilities, and, in combination with the at least one wing, can be used in horizontal flight. The aft rotor assembly can assume a horizontal flight position that places the rotor blades forward of a vertical fin of the aircraft. In another embodiment, a winged triple tiltrotor aircraft is disclosed. In another embodiment, a winged quad tiltrotor aircraft is disclosed.

[B64C] AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS (air-cushion vehicles B60V)

Tow line tension management systems for aircraft
Patent No. 11987351

Inventor(s): Alyssa Berta Armendariz (Fort Worth, TX), Christopher John Stroncek (Kennedale, TX), John Robert Wittmaak, Jr. (Newark, TX), Russell C. Peters (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17885053 on 08/10/2022 (650 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tailsitter aircraft for deploying a tow line includes an airframe having wings with pylons extending therebetween and a thrust array attached to the airframe, the thrust array including propulsion assemblies configured to transition the airframe between a forward flight orientation and a VTOL orientation. The tailsitter aircraft includes an attenuation spool coupled to the airframe and an attenuation cable having a first end coupled to the attenuation spool and a second end coupled to the tow line, the attenuation cable partially or fully wound around the attenuation spool. The tailsitter aircraft also includes a spool sensor to detect movement of the attenuation spool and a flight control system implementing a tow line tension monitoring module in communication with the spool sensor to determine a tow line tension parameter and a tow line tension reaction module to initiate an aircraft response based on the tow line tension parameter.

[B64C] AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS (air-cushion vehicles B60V)

Method and flexible apparatus permitting advanced radar signal processing, tracking, and classification/identification design and evaluation using single unmanned air surveillance (UAS) device
Patent No. 11987355

Inventor(s): Brian W. White (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Tewksbury, MA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17343175 on 06/09/2021 (1077 days app to issue)

Abstract: An assembly is configured for connection to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and comprises a plurality of emulator devices each configured for attachment to the UAV and a plurality of first connection tethers each configured to operably couple a respective one of the plurality of emulator devices to the UAV at a respective spacing from the UAV. The emulator devices each comprise an emulation component configured to provide, to a target detection system, a characteristic associated with a respective type of airborne object. The plurality of respective first connection tethers each comprises material that does not substantially reflect RF energy. During flight of the UAV, when the assembly is connected, each respective emulator device maintains the respective spacing from the UAV and emulates the characteristic to the target detection system, such that the assembly emulates, to the target detection system, a plurality of airborne objects.

[B64C] AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS (air-cushion vehicles B60V)

Dolly apparatuses including synchronization arms
Patent No. 11987453

Inventor(s): Annetta L. Allen (Lexington, KY), Bradley J. Garcia (Louisville, KY), Jeffrey L. James (Mount Sterling, KY), Johnny O. Boarman, IV (Frankfort, KY), Lloyd R. Holland (Georgetown, KY), Michael C. Greenlee (Paris, KY), Scott
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17736617 on 05/04/2022 (748 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of automatically moving a dolly apparatus from an initial location to a downstream location is provided. The method includes engaging a component being carried along an elevated conveyor with a synchronization arm of a dolly apparatus such that the dolly apparatus moves with the component. The dolly apparatus includes a base frame and an actuation member movably mounted to the base frame. A synchronization arm is movably mounted to a top of the base frame. The actuation member is operatively connected to the synchronization arm such that actuating the actuation member lowers the synchronization arm to a disengaged position. The actuation member is actuated thereby lowering the synchronization arm to a disengaged position and releasing the component.

[B65G] TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS (packaging B65B; handling thin or filamentary materials, e.g. paper sheets or thread, B65H; cranes B66C; portable or mobile lifting or hauling appliances, e.g. hoists, B66D; devices for lifting or lowering goods for loading or unloading purposes, e.g. fork-lift trucks, B66F 9/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers, not otherwise provided for, B67C 9/00; delivering or transferring liquids B67D; filling or discharging vessels for liquefied, solidified or compressed gases F17C; pipe-line systems for fluids F17D)

Gravity-driven flow rack assemblies
Patent No. 11987459

Inventor(s): Bradley J. Garcia (Louisville, KY), Eric F. Cornett (Georgetown, KY), Lloyd R. Holland (Georgetown, KY), Michael C. Greenlee (Paris, KY), Michael P. Meyer (Georgetown, KY), Randall L. Johnson (Lexington, KY), Scottie L. F
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17125046 on 12/17/2020 (1251 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of transporting a vehicle engine wire harness from a component preparation location to a component pick location is provided. The method includes placing the vehicle engine wire harness on a hook of a component hanger. The component hanger with vehicle engine wire harness is directed along a supply track assembly through a heated enclosure to the component pick location at a vehicle assembly line.

C H E M I S T R Y & M E T A L L U R G Y

Adhesive formulations for roofing applications and related methods
Patent No. 11987729

Inventor(s): Adem Chich (Kearny, NJ), Isaac Bernard Rufus (Newark, DE), Jarod L. Krajca (Ennis, TX), Michael Dougherty (Mount Arlington, NJ), Overton Williams (Paterson, NJ), Ramil Marcelo L. Mercado (Waxahachie, TX), Richard Chin (Li
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17872555 on 07/25/2022 (666 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to roofing systems including a substrate and adhesive formulations that are free of asphalt or substantially free of asphalt. Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods of making one or more adhesive formulations that are free of asphalt or substantially free of asphalt. Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems utilizing one or more adhesive formulations that are free of asphalt or substantially free of asphalt.

[C09J] ADHESIVES; NON-MECHANICAL ASPECTS OF ADHESIVE PROCESSES IN GENERAL; ADHESIVE PROCESSES NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF MATERIALS AS ADHESIVES (surgical adhesives A61L 24/00; adhesives on the basis of non specified organic macromolecular compounds used as bonding agents in layered products B32B; labelling fabrics or comparable materials or articles with deformable surface using adhesives and thermo-activatable adhesives respectively B65C 5/02, B65C 5/04; preparation of glue or gelatine C09H; adhesive labels, tag tickets or similar identification of indication means G09F 3/10) [5]

Fuel treatment device
Patent No. 11987762

Inventor(s): Carey Gipson (Weatherford, TX), Kenneth Thomas (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): ENVIROTRON LLC (Weatherford, TX)
Law Firm: Renner, Otto, Boisselle Sklar, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17765318 on 12/10/2020 (1258 days app to issue)

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the fuel treatment such as petrol or diesel for internal combustion engines. The device has a housing provided with fuel supply lines at each of its opposite ends thereof. A central opening in the tubular housing that contains a metal bar that is formed of an alloy composition including copper, zinc, tin, manganese, aluminum, and iron. And the liquid fuel circulates through the fuel line in the housing where the metal center bar displaces to the second liquid fuel line.

[C10L] FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G OR C10K; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; USE OF ADDITIVES TO FUELS OR FIRES; FIRE-LIGHTERS [5]

F I X E D C O N S T R U C T I O N S

Roofing system and associated roofing shingle
Patent No. 11987983

Inventor(s): Chris Searcy (Tuscaloosa, AL), Daniel E. Boss (Morris Township, NJ), James Svec (Kearny, NJ), Ming-Liang Shiao (Basking Ridge, NJ), Nicholas Thurston (Tuscaloosa, AL)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18065399 on 12/13/2022 (525 days app to issue)

Abstract: Roofing shingles are disclosed that are capable of self-adhering to a roof deck or underlayment and/or other roofing shingles and that require few or no mechanical fasteners to remain attached to the roof. By appropriate positioning of sealant lines on the shingle, direct adhesion between the shingle and the roof deck or underlayment and/or other roofing shingles can be achieved. If the shingle is laminated, the layers may be mechanically attached with indentations in the common bond area. The nail zone of the shingle may be visually indicated with fines and/or one or more paint lines. A roofing system comprising a plurality of courses of the shingles is also disclosed.

[E04D] ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS (coverings of outer walls by plaster or other porous material E04F 13/00)

Floor element for forming a floor covering and a floor covering
Patent No. 11987988

Inventor(s): Claudio Caselli (Dallas, TX), Rahul Patki (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Unilin BV (Wielsbeke, , BE)
Law Firm: Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17660866 on 04/27/2022 (755 days app to issue)

Abstract: A floor element for forming a floor covering, wherein the floor element comprises a decorative layer made of a ceramic material; a support layer arranged below the decorative layer; and a reinforcing layer arranged in between the decorative layer and the support layer, wherein the support layer comprises edges provided with coupling elements configured to realize a mechanical coupling with coupling elements of an adjacent floor element.

[E04F] FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS (windows, doors E06B)

Raking barrier panel
Patent No. 11988011

Inventor(s): Evan Timmons (Arlington, TX), Geoff T. Luczycki (Garland, TX), Kevin B. Flatt (Garland, TX), Kevin T. Burt (Dallas, TX), Matthew Carlyle Sherstad (Dallas, TX), Xiaoning Wang (Garland, TX), Yihong Zhang (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Fortress Iron, LP (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17341874 on 06/08/2021 (1078 days app to issue)

Abstract: A raking barrier panel includes a plurality of pickets, each defining a pivot pin hole. A channel member includes a web wall defining a plurality of spaced apart openings that each receives a respective one of the plurality of pickets therethrough. A plurality of picket pivot members are in snap-fit engagement with the channel member, and each one of the plurality of picket pivot members includes a pair of opposed end walls and a pair of opposed side walls together forming a box-like shape. A pivot pin extends from at least one of the pair of opposed side walls and is received by the pivot pin hole of a respective one of the plurality of pickets to define a pivot axis with respect to the channel member.

[E04H] BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL (foundations E02D) [4]

Eccentric reaming tool
Patent No. 11988045

Inventor(s): Lot William Short, Jr. (Dallas, TX), Richard E. Beggs (Rowlett, TX), Robert B. Beggs (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): Stabil Drill Specialties, L.L.C. (Lafayette, LA)
Law Firm: Jones Walker LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18062851 on 12/07/2022 (531 days app to issue)

Abstract: A reaming tool for use in a wellbore has an elongated tubular body with an outer surface. There are at least first and second reamer sections formed on the tubular body, with the first and second reamer sections (i) being positioned circumferentially opposite one another, and (ii) each having at least two blades. The first reamer section includes at least one rounded dome insert and a majority of cutting tooth inserts, while the second reamer section includes a majority of rounded dome inserts.

[E21B] EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING (mining, quarrying E21C; making shafts, driving galleries or tunnels E21D); OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS [5]

Self-locking coupler
Patent No. 11988048

Inventor(s): Stephen Michael Greci (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17412628 on 08/26/2021 (999 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a self-locking coupler, a method to couple adjacent tubing sections, and a self-locking coupling assembly. In one embodiment, the self-locking coupler includes a coupling shroud having an external interface proximate to a first end of the coupling shroud and a set of collet fingers that extends from the first end of the coupling shroud. The self-locking coupler also includes a locking sleeve having an internal interface that complements the external interface of the coupling shroud. The locking sleeve is movable from a first position on the external interface to a second position on the external interface. As the locking sleeve moves from the first position to the second position, the locking sleeve compresses the set of collet fingers into a cavity of a first seal ring coupled to a first tubing section to secure the coupling shroud to the first tubing section.

Radial cutting apparatus with swirl diverter
Patent No. 11988058

Inventor(s): Antony F. Grattan (Arlington, TX), Michael C. Robertson (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): Robertson Intellectual Properties, LLC (Mansfield, TX)
Law Firm: McCutcheon Joseph, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17856709 on 07/01/2022 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting a conduit in a borehole includes combustible material within a body; a nozzle comprising apertures; a support element between the nozzle and the combustible material, the support element comprising a mixing cavity within the support element; an activation device for igniting the combustible material to form a matrix of combustion products for passage toward the nozzle via the mixing cavity; and a swirl diverter comprising an outer surface having a plurality of helical vanes which extend from one end of the swirl diverter toward an opposite end of the swirl diverter. The apertures of the nozzle are configured to direct the matrix of combustion products from the mixing cavity to the helical vanes, and the helical vanes are shaped to rotate the matrix of combustion products and direct the matrix of combustion products radially outward of the body for cutting the conduit.

Drill string-connected protection from borehole pulsation energies
Patent No. 11988071

Inventor(s): Cersten Jantzon (Kingwood, TX), John Thomas Rogers (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Performance Pulsation Control, Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17646459 on 12/29/2021 (874 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pulsation dampening device includes a body having an upper connection end and a lower connection end, each connection end adapted to connect the body to connectors for a drill string pipe segment that are part of one of a top drive, a lower Kelly valve, a saver sub, drill string sub, a drill string pipe and a bottom hole assembly. Flow restriction is provided within an internal flow path extending axially through the body and is configured to reduce pumped fluid pressure pulses originating from an agitator within downhole tools. The flow restriction is provided by a combination of one or more orifice(s) restricting fluid flow within the internal flow path, optionally coupled with relief feature(s) gradually increasing or decreasing a cross-section of the internal flow path, or by an orifice device. Flow restriction operates unidirectionally or bidirectionally relative to predominant fluid flow in attenuating pressure pulses.

Perforating system orientation apparatus and method of orienting perforating guns
Patent No. 11988080

Inventor(s): Jason Karl Cook (Crowley, TX), Jeffery Richard Acker (Duncanville, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: C. Tumey Law Group, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17959775 on 10/04/2022 (595 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for landing a perforating gun in a particular orientation may include a landing housing securable within a wellbore and having at least one key slot extending into an inner surface of the landing housing. The system further includes a latch assembly configured to couple to the landing housing in a particular orientation. The latch assembly includes a tubular support structure and at least one key feature configured to extend and retract radially through a sidewall of the tubular support structure. The latch assembly further includes a biasing mechanism configured to bias the at least one key feature into the at least one key slot to couple the latch assembly to the landing housing. Additionally, the system includes a perforating gun system secured to the latch assembly such that the orientation of the latch assembly aims the perforating gun system in the wellbore.

Gravity assisted reservoir drainage systems and methods
Patent No. 11988081

Inventor(s): Jonathon Weiss (Fort Worth, TX), Stephen Andrew Graham (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): GHW Solutions, LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Crain Caton James (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17700065 on 03/21/2022 (792 days app to issue)

Abstract: Gravity assisted reservoir drainage systems and methods, which improve preexisting reservoir drainage systems and artificial lift methods using the interwell hydraulic communication that exists between closely spaced horizontal wells in certain fully developed leases completed with large multi-stage hydraulic fracture treatments in batch fashion.

Apparatus and methods for determining information from a well
Patent No. 11988083

Inventor(s): George Michalopulos (Tulsa, OK), Todd W. Benson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17661505 on 04/29/2022 (753 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for drilling a well may be adapted to process signals received from a fiber optic cable located in the casing of a previously drilled well or wells. The fiber optic cable may act as a distributed sensor receiving acoustic signals generated during the drilling of the well, and the system may be programmed to process the signals from the fiber optic cable to locate the borehole of the well being drilled, including its location relative to the previously drilled well or well. The system may be used to automatically update a well plan for the well being drilled responsive to information about the location of the borehole and also may be used to automatically adjust one or more drilling parameters or drilling operations responsive to the location of the second well borehole.

M E C H A N I C A L E N G I N E E R I N G
LIGHTING | HEATING | WEAPONS | BLASTING

Integrated vehicular remote starting interrupter
Patent No. 11988182

Inventor(s): Jeremy Allen Van Winkle (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18314059 on 05/08/2023 (379 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method of remotely enabling and disabling the starting of one or more vehicles using hardware components installed within a case and a data processing device (DPD), such as a smart phone, in logical communication with one of the vehicle and the case via a WAN, wherein an ignition request is relayed via the WAN to server which parses the ignition request into one or more encrypted ignition instructions, each encrypted ignition instruction sent to a separate vehicle exclusively associated with the encrypted ignition instruction.

[F02N] STARTING OF COMBUSTION ENGINES (starting of free-piston combustion-engines F02B 71/02; starting of gas-turbine plants F02C 7/26); STARTING AIDS FOR SUCH ENGINES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Sintered valve seat insert and method of manufacture thereof
Patent No. 11988294

Inventor(s): David M. Doll (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): L.E. Jones Company (Menominee, MI)
Law Firm: Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney PC (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17243821 on 04/29/2021 (1118 days app to issue)

Abstract: A powder admixture useful for making a sintered valve seat insert includes a first iron-base powder and second iron-base powder wherein the first iron-base powder has a higher hardness than the second iron-base powder, the first iron-base powder including, in weight percent, 1-2 % C, 10-25 % Cr, 5-20 % Mo, 15-25 % Co, and 30-60 wt. % Fe, and the second iron-base powder including, in weight %, 1-1.5 % C, 3-15 % Cr, 5-7 % Mo, 3-6 % W, 1-1.7 % V, and 60-85 % Fe. The powder admixture can be sintered to form a sintered valve seat insert optionally infiltrated with copper.

[F16K] VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING

Portable light system
Patent No. 11988368

Inventor(s): Brian W. Harnisch (Granbury, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Cramer Patent Design PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18389477 on 11/14/2023 (189 days app to issue)

Abstract: The portable light system may comprise a base, a boom, an extender, a first tool holder, a second tool holder, a third tool holder, a floodlight, and a flashlight. The portable light system may be a system of armatures that is self-standing and operable to direct light towards one or more objects. The base may comprise a quadripod stand with a telescoping vertical support. The extender and the boom may extend and redirect the system of armatures. A plurality of tool holders comprising the first tool holder, the second tool holder, and the third tool may be individually coupled to the system of armatures to hold a tool. The floodlight and the flashlight may be operable to provide illumination.

[F21V] FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [7]

Lever action firearm
Patent No. 11988480

Inventor(s): Jesse Daniel Carr (Fremont, NH), Paul Alexander Tusting (Salt Lake City, UT)
Assignee(s): Bond Arms Inc. (Granbury, TX)
Law Firm: Langlotz Patent Trademark Works, LLC (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18099466 on 01/20/2023 (487 days app to issue)

Abstract: Lever action firearms have an upper frame defining a bolt passage, a bolt carrier assembly received in the upper frame and operable to reciprocate between an open position and a closed position, a lower frame defining a magazine well configured to removably receive a box magazine, the lower frame removably connected to the upper frame by a transverse takedown pin, an action lever movable between a retracted position and an extended position and having a first pivot, and pivotally connected to the lower frame at the first pivot, a first link pivotally connected to the lower frame, a second link pivotally connected to the bolt carrier assembly, the first link and second link pivotally interconnected to each other, the first link defining a cam path, and a cam follower on the action lever operably engaged to the cam path such that movement of the action lever generates movement of the bolt carrier assembly.

[F41C] SMALLARMS, e.g. PISTOLS OR RIFLES (projecting missiles without use of explosive or combustible propellant charge F41B); ACCESSORIES THEREFOR [5]

P H Y S I C S

Monitoring of data to predict road conditions
Patent No. 11988520

Inventor(s): Brian Francisco Shipley (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17823594 on 08/31/2022 (629 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to monitoring data in and around a vehicle to predict anomalous, e.g., unsafe, road conditions, and using the data to suggest a corrective action to avoid the unsafe road conditions. A computing device receives information indicative of imagery, sound, or vehicle operation via sensors and/or cameras mounted in or near a vehicle. The information may be received via the vehicle itself or via a device. The computing device then determines whether there is an indication of an anomalous road condition. The computing device also receives vehicle operation data extracted from one or more vehicle sensors. The computing device then determines whether there is an indication of unsafe road conditions, and if there is, the computing device may output a notice or alert via a notification system to alert the driver.

[G01C] MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effect, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S)

On-line suppressor
Patent No. 11988649

Inventor(s): Bikash Chouhan (Arlington, TX), Joseph Ray (Midlothian, TX), Purnendu K. Dasgupta (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Frost Brown Todd LLP (Local + 4 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17063873 on 10/06/2020 (1323 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device for ion chromatography comprises a tube with an inlet opening and an outlet opening and an inner diameter from about 40 microns to about 10 microns. There is an aperture through one side of the tube into a lumen of the tube. At least a portion of the inner surface of the tube has a first charge. An ion exchange barrier covers the aperture on an outside surface of the tube. The inner surface of the tube, from the inlet opening to the aperture, is coated with ion exchange particles having a diameter ranging from about 30 nm to about 200 nm. The ion exchange particles have a second charge opposite the first charge. The inner surface of the tube, from the outlet opening to the aperture, is not coated with ion exchange particles.

[G01N] INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (measuring or testing processes other than immunoassay, involving enzymes or microorganisms C12M, C12Q)

Remote monitoring of water distribution system
Patent No. 11988656

Inventor(s): Brian Morrow (Carrollton, TX), Charles Kitowski (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): McWane, Inc. (Birmingham, AL)
Law Firm: Maynard Nexsen PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17012625 on 09/04/2020 (1355 days app to issue)

Abstract: A liquid monitoring system includes a remote measurement device located at a location of the fire hydrant that is in contact with water provided by a water main. The remote measurement device has sensors that measure characteristics of the water and/or acoustic vibrations in the water and a communication interface that transmits measured information to a communication network device that may be located elsewhere on the fire hydrant. The communication network device communicates with a communication network.

Systems and methods for identifying a source of radio frequency interference in a wireless network
Patent No. 11988762

Inventor(s): Brian A. Ward (Fort Worth, TX), Hector Alejandro Garcia Crespo (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18185533 on 03/17/2023 (431 days app to issue)

Abstract: An interference detection system in a network determines that an unknown radio frequency (RF) interference source that causes RF interference experienced by a first wireless station is a persistent RF interference source over a plurality of time intervals in a selected time period. A predicted interference source location is identified for each time interval in the selected time period. An aggregated predicted interference source location is calculated based on the identified one or more predicted interference source locations.

[G01S] RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES

Methods and apparatus for velocity detection in MIMO radar including velocity ambiguity resolution
Patent No. 11988769

Inventor(s): Adeel Ahmad (Richardson, TX), Dan Wang (Allen, TX), Karthik Subburaj (Bangalore, , IN), Sandeep Rao (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17856109 on 07/01/2022 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: In accordance with described examples, a method determines if a velocity of an object detected by a radar is greater than a maximum velocity by receiving on a plurality of receivers at least one frame of chirps transmitted by at least two transmitters and reflected off of the object. A velocity induced phase shift ([subscript]d[/subscript]) in a virtual array vector S of signals received by each receiver corresponding to a sequence of chirps (frame) transmitted by each transmitter is estimated. Phases of each element of virtual array vector S are corrected using [subscript]d [/subscript]to generate a corrected virtual array vector S[subscript]c[/subscript]. A first Fourier transform is performed on the corrected virtual array vector S[subscript]c [/subscript]to generate a corrected virtual array spectrum to detect a signature that indicates that the object has an absolute velocity greater than a maximum velocity.

Rule-based environmental condition impact assessments
Patent No. 11988804

Inventor(s): Kendall L. Hefley (Royse City, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Tewksbury, MA)
Law Firm: SCHWEGMAN LUNDBERG WOESSNER, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17174974 on 02/12/2021 (1194 days app to issue)

Abstract: Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for rule-based weather impact assessment. A method can include receiving, by a user interface, a request for environmental condition impact data for specified equipment at a specified location, retrieving weather model data for the specified location, comparing the retrieved weather model data to user-defined rules associated with the specified equipment, and providing, by the user interface, a graphic depiction indicating whether the user-defined rule is satisfied in the specified location based on the comparison.

[G01W] METEOROLOGY (radar, sonar, lidar or analogous systems, designed for meteorological use G01S 13/95, G01S 15/88, G01S 17/95)

Systems and methods for detecting and transmitting driving condition information related to an autonomous vehicle
Patent No. 11989019

Inventor(s): Huihui Wu (Plano, TX), Justin Nash (Little Elm, TX), Michael Lebowitz (McKinney, TX), Victor Kwak (Frisco, TX), William Daniel Farmer (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17039413 on 09/30/2020 (1329 days app to issue)

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle includes vehicle sensors that detect driving conditions and a communication interface communicatively coupled with a driving condition database via a communication network. The driving condition database stores vehicle sensor information indicative of first driving conditions and mobile device sensor information indicative of second driving conditions. Additionally, in response to a connection rating determination logic determining that a connection rating between the communication interface and the communication network below a threshold, a controller of the autonomous vehicle gathers, processes, and stores the vehicle sensor information and the mobile device sensor information for subsequent communication to the driving condition database and operates the autonomous vehicle based on the vehicle sensor information and the mobile device sensor information.

[G05D] SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES (for continuous casting of metals B22D 11/16; valves per se F16K; sensing non-electric variables, see the relevant subclasses of G01; for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F)

Controlling the number of powered vector lanes via a register field
Patent No. 11989072

Inventor(s): Duc Quang Bui (Grand Prairie, TX), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17838368 on 06/13/2022 (708 days app to issue)

Abstract: The vector data path is divided into smaller vector lanes. A register such as a memory mapped control register stores a vector lane number (VLX) indicating the number of vector lanes to be powered. A decoder converts this VLX into a vector lane control word, each bit controlling the ON of OFF state of the corresponding vector lane. This number of contiguous least significant vector lanes are powered. In the preferred embodiment the stored data VLX indicates that 2[superscript]VLX [/superscript]contiguous least significant vector lanes are to be powered. Thus the number of vector lanes powered is limited to an integral power of 2. This manner of coding produces a very compact controlling bit field while obtaining substantially all the power saving advantage of individually controlling the power of all vector lanes.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

ECC protected storage
Patent No. 11989092

Inventor(s): Samuel Paul Visalli (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18102807 on 01/30/2023 (477 days app to issue)

Abstract: A data storage circuit includes memory, an error correcting code (ECC) storage circuit, and control circuitry. The memory is configured to store a data value comprising a plurality of fields. Each of the fields is independently writable. The ECC storage circuit is configured to store an ECC value corresponding to the data value. The control circuitry is configured to receive a field value to be written into one of the fields, and store the field value in the one of the fields by writing only the field value to the memory. The control circuitry is also configured to retrieve the ECC value from the ECC storage circuit, compute an updated ECC value based on the ECC value retrieved from the ECC storage circuit and the field value, and store the updated ECC value in the ECC storage circuit.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Handling trace data for jumps in program flow
Patent No. 11989111

Inventor(s): Iain Robertson (Bedford, , GB)
Assignee(s): Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16925445 on 07/10/2020 (1411 days app to issue)

Abstract: A processor supervisory unit for monitoring the program flow executed by a processor, the supervisory unit being arranged to store a set of values representing locations to which the program flow is expected to return after jumps in the program flow, the unit being capable of: in a first mode, on detecting a jump in the program flow to store a location value representing a location to which the program flow is expected to return from that jump; and in a second mode, on detecting a jump in the program flow to increment a counter associated with a location value representing a location to which the program flow is expected to return from that jump.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Agent-side chatbot simulator with throttling capabilities
Patent No. 11989115

Inventor(s): Martin Goettmann (Flower Mound, TX), Ramakrishna R. Yannam (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17751910 on 05/24/2022 (728 days app to issue)

Abstract: This application describes apparatus and methods for an agent-side simulator for testing chatbot systems. The agent-side simulator may be configured to mimic behavior of a human agent in a chatbot testing environment. The agent-side simulator may throttle the amount of data and the frequency of speed at which the data is processed by components of the chatbot system. The agent-side simulator may test how much data that can be processed by a chatbot system and the speed which a target volume of data can be processed by the chatbot system. The agent-side simulator may build an agent profiles for different chat conversations. A first agent profile may be used to simulate conversations that require slower response times. A second agent profile may be used to simulate conversations that require faster response times. The agent-side simulator may not perform chat session handling to minimize computing resources consumed by the agent-side simulator.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Systems, methods, and media for updating, managing, and maintaining a reference template for web service API testing
Patent No. 11989123

Inventor(s): Harish Kumar Sriramula (Irving, TX), Mahesh Venkat Adusumelli (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): FMR LLC (Boston, MA)
Law Firm: Cesari and McKenna, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18376211 on 10/03/2023 (231 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are provided for updating, managing, and maintaining a reference template for web service API testing. A plurality of logs, corresponding to a target application that provides one or more web services, may be captured. The captured logs may be filtered using information (e.g., URL extension) in the captured logs. Each filtered log may be parameterized and API request payload data may be extracted to generate a baseline template. A reference template may be compared with a corresponding baseline template to determine if they differ. If they differ, a test template may be generated by replacing each differing field of the reference template with a corresponding baseline template identifier. The test template may then be used in testing a web service API, such that a test template can conform with a changing web service API.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Enumeration of rooted partial subtrees
Patent No. 11989168

Inventor(s): Jack J. LeTourneau (Ventura, CA), Karl Schiffmann (Santa Barbara, CA), Mark Andrews (Pleasant Hills, CA)
Assignee(s): Lower48 IP LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18182425 on 03/13/2023 (435 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for manipulating hierarchical sets of data are disclosed. In particular, methods, apparatus devices and or/or systems for enumerating rooted partial subtrees are disclosed.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Methods and systems for synchronizing communication records in computer networks based on detecting patterns in categories of metadata
Patent No. 11989207

Inventor(s): Brice Elder (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18178468 on 03/03/2023 (445 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein for synchronizing communication records in computer networks. For example, the methods and systems may determine whether or not a first communication relates to a second and generate a recommendation that the communications relate to a single communication. In particular, the methods and systems described herein describe synchronizing communication records in computer networks based on detecting patterns in categories of metadata. For example, the methods and systems retrieve specific types of metadata and compare this metadata between communications in order to synchronize and/or deduplicate them.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

System for determining and optimizing for relevance in match-making systems
Patent No. 11989220

Inventor(s): Donald Metzler (Los Angeles, CA), Fernando Diaz (San Francisco, CA), Sihem Amer-Yahia (New York, NY)
Assignee(s): Match Group, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Patent Capital Group (Local + 6 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16538090 on 08/12/2019 (1744 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for automatically determining the relevance of matches between entities. A set of one or more indicators of relevance for each of a plurality of matches may be detected, where each of the plurality of matches exists between a first entity and a different one of a plurality of entities. Each set of one or more indicators of relevance indicates a degree of two-way interest for a corresponding one of the plurality of matches, the degree of two-way interest indicating both a degree of interest of the first entity in the corresponding one of the plurality of entities and a degree of interest of the corresponding one of the plurality of entities in the first entity. A probability of relevance of each of the plurality of matches may be determined based at least in part upon a corresponding set of one or more indicators of relevance. Each of the plurality of matches may be ranked based at least in part on the corresponding probability of relevance. A ranking function may be trained based upon the probability of relevance of each of the plurality of matches. The ranking function may subsequently be applied to identify and rank matches (e.g., in the absence of indicators of relevance).

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

System and method of configuring a non-volatile storage device
Patent No. 11989301

Inventor(s): Charles D. Stracener (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: McDermott Will Emery LLP (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17449181 on 09/28/2021 (966 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may determine that the staged job needs to be executed by a baseboard management controller (BMC) while an information handling system (IHS) is held in a power-on self-test; create a hybrid job associated with the staged job; reboot the IHS; launch an IHS firmware application in a pre-boot IHS firmware environment; provide, to the BMC, a command to execute a first portion of the hybrid job; obtain, by the BMC, an authentication key; provide, by the BMC, the authentication key to the non-volatile storage device; execute, by the BMC, the first portion of the hybrid job to configure the non-volatile storage device; and execute, by the IHS firmware application, the second portion of the hybrid job to poll the baseboard management controller for a result status of configuring the non-volatile storage device.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Method and apparatus for managing identification of a virtual machine and a host within a virtual domain
Patent No. 11989333

Inventor(s): Srinandan Hullahalli (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Guntin Gust, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17395066 on 08/05/2021 (1020 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a request to install a guest virtual machine on a physical host; identifying a UUID of the physical host; generating a virtual machine reference value; defining a modified UUID of the guest virtual machine comprising the UUID of the physical host and the virtual machine reference value; and assigning the modified UUID to the guest virtual machine, the physical host being identifiable via the modified UUID of the guest virtual machine. Other embodiments are disclosed.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Interacting with a smart device using a pointing controller
Patent No. 11989355

Inventor(s): Charles James Bruce (London, , GB), Lewis Antony Jones (London, , GB), Nathaniel James Martin (London, , GB)
Assignee(s): ARKH Litho Holdings, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Amsel IP Law PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17432028 on 02/15/2020 (1557 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pointing controller worn by a user enables intuitive control of various connected smart devices. Users may indicate which device is to be controlled by pointing in the direction of the smart device (or a proxy object) and performing a predefined action to select the device for control. Once selected, the user may interact with the smart device by performing various gestures or interactions with one or more control elements integrated into the pointing controller. The smart device may provide feedback using visual or auditory indicators on the smart device, or by sending a control signal to the pointing controller or other device in proximity to the user that provides haptic, auditory, or visual feedback.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Interface modification systems and methods
Patent No. 11989395

Inventor(s): Amber Nicole Sodikov (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17726169 on 04/21/2022 (761 days app to issue)

Abstract: An interface modification system includes one or more processors configured to provide, to one or more client devices, a graphical representation of a web application. The graphical representation has a first layer including one or more components of the web application and a second layer configured for secondary interactions with the one or more components. The one or more processors are configured to receive, via the second layer and from the one or more client devices, feedback associated with the one or more components. Additionally, the one or more processors are configured to generate an incident record including the feedback and store the incident record in an incident database.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Systems and methods for multi-source true random number generators, including multi-source entropy extractor based quantum photonic true random number generators
Patent No. 11989532

Inventor(s): Duncan L. MacFarlane (Dallas, TX), Micah A. Thornton (Dallas, TX), Mitchell A. Thornton (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ANAMETRIC, INC. (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Sprinkle IP Law Group (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18190848 on 03/27/2023 (421 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for a multi-source true random number generator (TRNG) are disclosed. A set of values is generated from each of the sources of randomness and an extractor is applied each of the set of values to produce a set of random values from each source. At least one extractor for at least one of the sources is a multi-radix extractor. The sets of values generated from each source of randomness can be composited to generate a random bitstring as the output of the TRNG.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Detecting infinite loops in a programmable atomic transaction
Patent No. 11989556

Inventor(s): Tony Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: SCHWEGMAN LUNDBERG WOESSNER, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18111744 on 02/20/2023 (456 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums to detect and terminate programmable atomic transactions that are stuck in an infinite loop. In order to detect and terminate these transactions, the programmable atomic unit may use an instruction counter that increments each time an instruction is executed during execution of a programmable atomic transaction. If the instruction counter meets or exceeds a threshold instruction execution limit without reaching the termination instruction, the programmable atomic transaction may be terminated, all resources used (e.g., memory locks) may be freed, and a response may be sent to a calling processor.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

System and method of managing restarting child processes on information handling systems
Patent No. 11989584

Inventor(s): Daniel Thomas Daugherty (Plano, TX), Jonathan Nathan Yanez (Allen, TX), Ricardo Antonio Ruiz (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: McDermott Will Emery LLP (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17452588 on 10/28/2021 (936 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may receive, by a parent process of a child process, first information indicating that the child process ceased executing; determine, by an analyzer of the parent process, a reason that the child process ceased executing; determine, by the parent process, a first numerical weight associated with the reason; determine, by the parent process, that the first numerical weight is above a threshold numerical value; restart, by the parent process, execution of the child process; determine, by a loss function, a second numerical weight associated with the reason; receive, by the parent process, second information indicating that the child process has ceased executing; determine, by the analyzer, the reason that the child process ceased executing; and determine, by the parent process, that the second numerical weight is not above the threshold numerical value.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

System and method for invertible wavelet layer for neural networks
Patent No. 11989637

Inventor(s): Chenchi Luo (Plano, TX), David Liu (Plano, TX), Youngjun Yoo (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16399998 on 04/30/2019 (1848 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device, method, and computer readable medium for an invertible wavelet layer for neural networks are provided. The electronic device includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The at least one processor is configured to receive an input to a neural network, apply a wavelet transform to the input at a wavelet layer of the neural network, and generate a plurality of subbands of the input as a result of the wavelet transform.

[G06N] COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS [7]

Systems and methods for proactive infrastructure resource management for multiple application clusters
Patent No. 11989673

Inventor(s): Aaron L. Hoenig (Plano, TX), Amit Pandey (Plano, TX), Ateet Kumar Awasthi (McKinney, TX), Kumar Anand (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: TROUTMAN PEPPER HAMILTON SANDERS LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18295963 on 04/05/2023 (412 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system including: a processor; and a memory storing computer program code that controls the processor to: collect real-time business process metrics; collect real-time cluster metrics for a plurality of application clusters indicative of a required allotment of infrastructure resources for a given business process level; estimate a predicted future business process level; based on the estimated predicted future business process level and the real-time cluster metrics, predict a future infrastructure resource requirement of each of the plurality of application clusters; compare the predicted future infrastructure resource requirement of each of the plurality of application clusters to a current dedication of each of the plurality of application clusters; automatically adjust, in real-time and based on the comparison, respective allotments of infrastructure resources for each of the plurality of application clusters; receive an actual business process; and process the business process across the plurality of application clusters.

[G06Q] DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [2006.01]

Self-checkout verification system and related methods
Patent No. 11989763

Inventor(s): Jared O. Santibanez (Forney, TX)
Assignee(s): INMAR CLEARING, INC. (Winston-Salem, NC)
Law Firm: ALLEN, DYER, DOPPELT, + GILCHRIST, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17546582 on 12/09/2021 (894 days app to issue)

Abstract: A self-checkout verification system may include a user device configured to collect user mobile checkout image data from products to be purchased in a store during a mobile checkout process, generate a mobile checkout list of the products to be purchased based upon the collected mobile checkout image data, and process payment based upon the mobile checkout list. The system may also include a self-checkout verification station in the store and configured to obtain the mobile checkout list from the user device, collect verification image data from a plurality of products presented for verification, and generate a verification list based upon the verification image data. The self-checkout verification station may also be configured to determine a discrepancy between the verification list and the mobile checkout list, and generate and communicate a notification based upon the discrepancy.

Monitored alerts
Patent No. 11989784

Inventor(s): Jefferson Crew (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (San Francisco, CA)
Law Firm: SCHWEGMAN LUNDBERG WOESSNER, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18153775 on 01/12/2023 (495 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums which provide for customized alerts for a user. Alerts may be described by a set of alert parameters. Alert parameters include the type of alerts, the frequency of alerts, and the content of the alerts. While the alert parameters may initially be set based upon the users explicitly entered preferences, the system may monitor one or more indicators to dynamically adjust one or more of the alert parameters. As the indicators allow the automated portfolio management system to respond to the needs of a user, these alerts may increase the personalization of automated portfolio management systems.

System and method to enable augmented intelligence guided help
Patent No. 11989786

Inventor(s): Nolan Serrao (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17356592 on 06/24/2021 (1062 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for using an augmented intelligence guide system to assist users, customers, members, and other users of a service (for example, a financial service or an insurance service) in completing a task or process to improve the success rate of the accurate completion of the steps necessary to execute the task or process is described. The system includes a process detection module, an experience determination module, an assistance classification module, and a guidance engine.

Method and system for data tracking and exchange
Patent No. 11989791

Inventor(s): Manu Jacob Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17403546 on 08/16/2021 (1009 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to electronic computer implemented tracking method and system for an article of manufacture. In one aspect, a plurality of computer readable records are electronically maintained and stored in a computer readable database. In one step, a temporary virtual record is generated with EDI data payload including a transaction record attribute, a location transfer request attribute for designating a transfer location of an article of manufacture, and a recipient user biometric ID attribute. Next, electronically via data communications network tunnel, EDI data payload representative of the transaction record attribute and the location transfer request attribute is transmitted; and responsive to the location transfer request attribute, via the computer-based data communications network, the system transmits EDI data payload representative of an exchange zone attribute for designating a physical zone for exchanging said article of manufacture.

Parking seeker detection system and method for updating parking spot database using same
Patent No. 11989796

Inventor(s): Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, CA), Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17166405 on 02/03/2021 (1203 days app to issue)

Abstract: A parking seeker detection system and method for updating an availability of one or more parking spots of a parking spot database is provided. The method includes determining whether a target vehicle is a registered member vehicle, and in response to determining that the target vehicle is not a registered member vehicle, identifying a target parking spot in which the target vehicle is intending to park and updating an availability of a parking spot of a parking spot database corresponding to the target parking spot.

System and method for high precision multi-aperture spectral imaging
Patent No. 11989860

Inventor(s): Brian McCall (Dallas, TX), Jason Dwight (Dallas, TX), Jeffrey E. Thatcher (Irving, TX), John Michael DiMaio (Dallas, TX), Wensheng Fan (Plano, TX), Zhicun Gao (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Spectral MD, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18178875 on 03/06/2023 (442 days app to issue)

Abstract: Generally described, one or more aspects of the present application correspond to systems and techniques for spectral imaging using a multi-aperture system with curved multi-bandpass filters positioned over each aperture. The present disclosure further relates to techniques for implementing spectral unmixing and image registration to generate a spectral datacube using image information received from such imaging systems. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to using such a datacube to analyze the imaged object, for example to analyze tissue in a clinical setting, perform biometric recognition, or perform materials analysis.

[G06T] IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL [2006.01]

Dynamic calibration correction in multi-frame, multi-exposure capture
Patent No. 11989913

Inventor(s): Hamid Rahim Sheikh (Allen, TX), John William Glotzbach (Allen, TX), Nguyen Thang Long Le (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17573031 on 01/11/2022 (861 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for dynamic calibration correction in multi-frame, multi-exposure capture in a camera system includes receiving an amplified non-reference frame (e.g., with non-standard exposure value EV-4) to which a digital gain was applied and a reference frame (e.g., with standard exposure value EV0). The method includes generating a mask based on the reference frame and the amplified non-reference frame. The method includes estimating a scaling coefficient and an offset coefficient for each of a number of channels in the amplified non-reference frame, based on selected pixel locations in the generated mask. The method includes correcting a calibration of the amplified non-reference frame by applying the scaling coefficients for each of the channels. The method also includes outputting a calibration-corrected amplified non-reference frame to a multi-frame processor.

[G06T] IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL [2006.01]

Perception system with attention module for processing visual data
Patent No. 11989947

Inventor(s): Thanura R. Elvitigala (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, MI)
Law Firm: Quinn IP Law (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17367847 on 07/06/2021 (1050 days app to issue)

Abstract: A perception system is adapted to receive visual data from a camera and includes a controller having a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded. A subsampling module, an object detection module and an attention module are each selectively executable by the controller. The controller is configured to sample an input image from the visual data to generate a rescaled whole image frame, via the subsampling module. The controller is configured to extract feature data from the rescaled whole image frame, via the object detection module. A region of interest in the rescaled whole image frame is identified, based on an output of the attention module. The controller is configured to generate a first image based on the rescaled whole image frame and a second image based on the region of interest, the second image having a higher resolution than the first image.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Pre-decoder circuity
Patent No. 11990176

Inventor(s): Jin Seung Son (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Brooks, Cameron Huebsch, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17831332 on 06/02/2022 (719 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for pre-decoder circuitry. An embodiment includes a memory array including a plurality of memory cells, decoder circuitry coupled to the array and comprising a first and second n-type transistor having a first and second gate, respectively, and pre-decoder circuitry to provide a bias condition for the first and second gate to provide a selection signal to one of the cells. The bias condition comprises a positive voltage for the first gate and a negative voltage for the second gate for a positive memory cell configuration, and zero volts for the first gate and the negative voltage for the second gate for a negative memory cell configuration. The pre-decoder circuitry comprises first pre-decoder circuitry to provide the positive voltage for the first gate and the zero volts for the second gate and second pre-decoder circuitry to provide the negative voltage for the second gate.

[G11C] STATIC STORES (information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B; semiconductor devices for storage H01L, e.g. H01L 27/108-H01L 27/11597; pulse technique in general H03K, e.g. electronic switches H03K 17/00)

Computing register with non-volatile-logic data storage
Patent No. 11990196

Inventor(s): Adolf Baumann (Haag, , DE), Mark Jung (Freising, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18179434 on 03/07/2023 (441 days app to issue)

Abstract: A digital system includes a non-volatile calculating register having a set of latches configured to perform a calculation. A set of non-volatile storage cells is coupled to the set of latches. Access detection logic is coupled to the calculating register and is operable to initiate a calculation of a next value by the calculating register each time the calculating register is accessed by an accessing module. The access detection logic is operable to cause the next value to be stored in the set of non-volatile storage cells at the completion of the calculation as an atomic transaction. After a power loss or other restore event, the contents of the calculating register may be restored from the non-volatile storage cells.

Healthcare coverage matching and verification
Patent No. 11990217

Inventor(s): Anand Padmanaban (Lewisville, TX), Chris Lolo (McKinney, TX), Deb Grier (Delanson, NY), Eric Hallemeier (Dallas, TX), Gopi Kolla (Irving, TX), Karthik Sundaram (Little Elm, TX), Kevin Nyaribo (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Health Management Systems, Inc. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17240600 on 04/26/2021 (1121 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods and devices for providing healthcare coverage matching and verification. In some aspects, a method includes receiving, from a frontend graphical user interface (GUI), a healthcare coverage application comprising client demographics that include at least two of the following: a last name, a first name, a birthdate, an identification number, an address and a request type associated with a client, using a parallel matching and verification architecture to determine, based on a first set of criteria, a matching database record from an eligibility database that corresponds to the healthcare coverage application, and communicate with a healthcare provider using electronic data interchange transactions, identify, based on a second set of criteria, a medical policy that corresponds to the matching database record, and verify the medical policy, and transmitting, to the frontend GUI, the medical policy to allow reception of the medical policy by the client.

[G16H] HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA

Cognitive neuro-linguistic behavior recognition system for multi-sensor data fusion
Patent No. 11991194

Inventor(s): Aaron Poffenberger (Houston, TX), Alex David Hemsath (Houston, TX), Charles Richard Morgan (Katy, TX), David M. Solum (Houston, TX), Dennis G. Urech (Katy, TX), Duy Trong Nguyen (Friendswood, TX), Gang Xu (Katy, TX),
Assignee(s): Intellective Ai, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: COOLEY LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17368586 on 07/06/2021 (1050 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments presented herein describe techniques for generating a linguistic model of input data obtained from a data source (e.g., a video camera). According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a sequence of symbols is generated based on an ordered stream of normalized vectors generated from the input data. A dictionary of words is generated from combinations of the ordered sequence of symbols based on a frequency at which combinations of symbols appear in the ordered sequence of symbols. A plurality of phrases is generated based an ordered sequence of words from the dictionary observed in the ordered sequence of symbols based on a frequency by which combinations of words in ordered sequence of words appear relative to one another.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Device with dummy metallic traces
Patent No. 11990399

Inventor(s): Frank Armstrong (Terrell, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17834837 on 06/07/2022 (714 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate having a surface, functional metallic traces on a first portion of the surface that are electrically connected to carry current in the electronic device and have a first density, and dummy metallic traces on a second portion of the surface that are electrically isolated from the functional metallic traces and have a second density that is within at least 50% of the first density.

[H01L] SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (use of semiconductor devices for measuring G01; resistors in general H01C; magnets, inductors, transformers H01F; capacitors in general H01G; electrolytic devices H01G 9/00; batteries, accumulators H01M; waveguides, resonators, or lines of the waveguide type H01P; line connectors, current collectors H01R; stimulated-emission devices H01S; electromechanical resonators H03H; loudspeakers, microphones, gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers H04R; electric light sources in general H05B; printed circuits, hybrid circuits, casings or constructional details of electrical apparatus, manufacture of assemblages of electrical components H05K; use of semiconductor devices in circuits having a particular application, see the subclass for the application) [2]

Three-dimensional memory device including aluminum alloy word lines and method of making the same
Patent No. 11990413

Inventor(s): Fumitaka Amano (Yokkaichi, , JP), Linghan Chen (Nagoya, , JP), Raghuveer S. Makala (Campbell, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17399710 on 08/11/2021 (1014 days app to issue)

Abstract: A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers. The electrically conductive layers include an intermetallic alloy of aluminum and at least one metal other than aluminum. Memory openings vertically extend through the alternating stack. Memory opening fill structures are located in a respective one of the memory openings and include a respective vertical semiconductor channel and a respective vertical stack of memory elements.

Modular battery systems for aircraft
Patent No. 11990647

Inventor(s): Michael Raymond Hull (Fort Worth, TX), Steven Loveland (Keller, TX), Yue Fan (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18206610 on 06/06/2023 (350 days app to issue)

Abstract: A modular battery system includes an array of battery modules arranged in at least one stack. Each battery module includes a plurality of battery cells, a first side having positive and negative receptacles and a second side, that is opposite of the first side, having positive and negative plugs. The receptacles and plugs are configured such that adjacent battery modules in a side-by-side relationship are electrically coupled together via plug and receptacle connections and such that the battery modules are electrically coupled together in parallel. An interconnection electrically couples each stack of battery modules together via plug and receptacle connections with one of the battery modules in each stack such that the stacks of battery modules are electrically coupled together in parallel. Each of the battery modules includes a thermal conditioning system configured to thermally isolate the battery module from the other battery modules.

[H02P] CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORS OR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; CONTROLLING TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS OR CHOKE COILS [4]

Base station antennas having arrays of radiating elements with 4 ports without usage of diplexers
Patent No. 11990669

Inventor(s): Mohammad Vatankhah Varnoosfaderani (Richardson, TX), Sammit Patel (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Claremont, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18139979 on 04/27/2023 (390 days app to issue)

Abstract: Base station antennas include first through fourth radio frequency (‘RF’) ports, a plurality of first combiners that are coupled to the first and second RF ports, a plurality of second combiners that are coupled to the third and fourth RF ports, and an array that includes a plurality of radiating elements that have first through fourth radiators, where first and second radiators of each radiating element are coupled to a respective one of the first combiners, and third and fourth radiators of each radiating element are coupled to respective ones of the second combiners.

[H01Q] AERIALS (radiators or aerials for microwave heating H05B 6/72)

Base station antennas having an active antenna module(s) and related devices and methods
Patent No. 11990679

Inventor(s): Haifeng Li (Richardson, TX), Samantha Merta (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Claremont, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17836168 on 06/09/2022 (712 days app to issue)

Abstract: Base station antennas include an externally accessible active antenna module releasably coupled to a rear of the housing. The base station antenna housing has a passive antenna assembly that cooperates with the active antenna module.

[H01Q] AERIALS (radiators or aerials for microwave heating H05B 6/72)

Wet-mate connector assembly with a dielectric grease retainer and a stiffening material in a wellbore
Patent No. 11990705

Inventor(s): Shengjun Yin (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17564412 on 12/29/2021 (874 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a wet-mate connector assembly that can include a stiffening material and a dielectric grease retainer for preventing the extrusion of dielectric grease during a wet connect. The wet-mate connector assembly can include a male portion and a female portion that can receive the male portion to form an electrical connection with the male portion. The wet-mate connector assembly can also include a dielectric grease retainer that can be positioned near the male portion and the female portion for retaining dielectric grease extruded from a contact chamber when the female portion receives the male portion. The dielectric grease retainer can seal and insulate the contact chamber. The contact chamber can be defined by an outer diameter of the male portion and an inner diameter of the female portion. The male portion and the female portion can include a stiffening material and an insulating material.

[H01R] ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS (switches, fuses H01H; coupling devices of the waveguide type H01P 5/00; switching arrangements for the supply or distribution of electric power H02B; installations of electric cables or lines, or of combined optical and electric cables or lines, or of auxiliary apparatus H02G; printed means for providing electric connections to or between printed circuits H05K)

Power conversion system and control method
Patent No. 11990835

Inventor(s): Dianbo Fu (Frisco, TX), Heping Dai (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. (Shenzhen, , CN)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17473202 on 09/13/2021 (981 days app to issue)

Abstract: A power conversion system includes a first rectifier and a second rectifier. The first rectifier is configured to operate at a first operating frequency. The first rectifier is configured to be connected with a three-phase power source. A first amount of power flows through the first rectifier from the three-phase power source. The second rectifier is configured to operate at a second operating frequency. The second rectifier is configured to be connected in parallel with the first rectifier, and a second amount of power flows through the second rectifier from the three-phase power source. The second operating frequency is higher than the first operating frequency, and the second amount of power is a fraction of the first amount of power.

[H02M] APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF (conversion of current or voltage specially adapted for use in electronic time-pieces with no moving parts G04G 19/02; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables in general, e.g. using transformers, reactors or choke coils, combination of such systems with static converters G05F; for digital computers G06F 1/00; transformers H01F; connection or control of one converter with regard to conjoint operation with a similar or other source of supply H02J; dynamo-electric converters H02K 47/00; controlling transformers, reactors or choke coils, control or regulation of electric motors, generators or dynamo-electric converters H02P; pulse generators H03K) [5]

Fully-differential amplifier with input common-mode voltage control
Patent No. 11990879

Inventor(s): Joel Martin Halbert (Tucson, AZ), Xiyao Zhang (Tucson, AZ)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17316775 on 05/11/2021 (1106 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fully-differential amplifier (FDA) includes a core differential amplifier and a common-mode input voltage control circuit. The core differential amplifier includes differential inputs. The common-mode input voltage control circuit is coupled to the differential inputs. The common-mode input voltage control circuit is configured to generate an error signal as a difference of an input common mode voltage at the differential inputs and a target common mode input voltage (VICM); and to adjust the input common mode voltage to the VICM based on the error signal.

[H03F] AMPLIFIERS (measuring, testing G01R; optical parametric amplifiers G02F; circuit arrangements with secondary emission tubes H01J 43/30; masers, lasers H01S; dynamo-electric amplifiers H02K; control of amplification H03G; coupling arrangements independent of the nature of the amplifier, voltage dividers H03H; amplifiers capable only of dealing with pulses H03K; repeater circuits in transmission lines H04B 3/36, H04B 3/58; application of speech amplifiers in telephonic communication H04M 1/60, H04M 3/40)

Method for manufacturing acoustic devices with improved performance
Patent No. 11990885

Inventor(s): Derya Deniz (McKinney, TX), Matthew L. Wasilik (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Qorvo US, Inc. (Greensboro, NC)
Law Firm: Withrow Terranova, P.L.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17361698 on 06/29/2021 (1057 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an acoustic device includes providing a substrate, providing a bottom electrode over the substrate, providing a sacrificial layer on the bottom electrode, patterning the bottom electrode and the sacrificial layer, polishing the sacrificial layer such that a portion of the sacrificial layer remains on the bottom electrode, and removing the remaining portion of the sacrificial layer via a cleaning process such that a surface roughness of the bottom electrode is maintained. By performing the polishing such that a portion of the sacrificial layer remains on the bottom electrode and subsequently removing that portion of the sacrificial layer via a cleaning process that maintains the surface roughness of the bottom electrode, the subsequent growth of a piezoelectric layer on the bottom electrode can be substantially improved.

[H03H] IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS (measuring, testing G01R; arrangements for producing a reverberation or echo sound G10K 15/08; impedance networks or resonators consisting of distributed impedances, e.g. of the waveguide type, H01P; control of amplification, e.g. bandwidth control of amplifiers, H03G; tuning resonant circuits, e.g. tuning coupled resonant circuits, H03J; networks for modifying the frequency characteristics of communication systems H04B)

Phase lock loop reference loss detection
Patent No. 11990914

Inventor(s): Shailesh Ganapat Ghotgalkar (Bangalore, , IN), Venkatseema Das (Bangalore, , IN), Wei Fu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17550123 on 12/14/2021 (889 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, a first clock generator generates an output clock signal in response to an input reference signal and in response to a feedback signal that is generated in response to the output clock signal. A code generator generates a code in response to the input reference signal. A loss detector generates an indication of a loss of the input reference signal in response to the feedback signal and at least two codes generated by the code generator.

[H03L] AUTOMATIC CONTROL, STARTING, SYNCHRONISATION, OR STABILISATION OF GENERATORS OF ELECTRONIC OSCILLATIONS OR PULSES (of dynamo-electric generators H02P) [3]

Compensated digital-to-analog converter (DAC)
Patent No. 11990916

Inventor(s): Debapriya Sahu (Bengaluru, , IN), Meghna Agrawal (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17967815 on 10/17/2022 (582 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and a compensation circuit. The DAC has first and second terminals. The compensation circuit includes a capacitor and a transistor. The capacitor has first and second terminals, with the first terminal of the capacitor coupled to the first terminal of the DAC. The transistor has a source coupled to the second terminal of the capacitor, and has a gate coupled to the second terminal of the DAC.

[H03M] CODING, DECODING OR CODE CONVERSION, IN GENERAL (using fluidic means F15C 4/00; optical analogue/digital converters G02F 7/00; coding, decoding or code conversion, specially adapted for particular applications, see the relevant subclasses, e.g. G01D, G01R, G06F, G06T, G09G, G10L, G11B, G11C, H04B, H04L, H04M, H04N; ciphering or deciphering for cryptography or other purposes involving the need for secrecy G09C) [4]

Hub communication with a satellite network or a terrestrial network
Patent No. 11990983

Inventor(s): Vijay Lewis (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): Skylo Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18137523 on 04/21/2023 (396 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems of hub communication with a satellite network or a terrestrial network are disclosed. One method includes detecting presence of the satellite network, detecting, by the hub, presence of a terrestrial network, selecting to connect to one of the satellite network or the terrestrial network based on a priority ruleset, estimating a propagation delay between the hub and a base station of the satellite network when the satellite network is selected, adjusting a timing offset between transmit and receive radio frames at the hub based on whether the satellite network or the terrestrial network is selected, and based at least on the propagation delay, and communicating with the base station of the satellite network or a base station of the terrestrial network.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Systems and methods for reducing a quantity of false positives associated with rule-based alarms
Patent No. 11991037

Inventor(s): Ria V. Sijo (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17170098 on 02/08/2021 (1198 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may receive alarm data identifying alarms associated with an occurrence of an event, and may identify, from the alarm data, a set of alarms that include false positives. The device may perform feature engineering on the set of alarms to extract features from a feature store and may train a model with the features to generate a trained model. The device may process the alarm data, with the trained model, to determine rules for reducing a quantity of future alarms that include the false positives, and may identify, from the rules for reducing the quantity of future alarms, a set of rules that satisfy a threshold for reducing the quantity of future alarms. The device may perform one or more actions based on the set of rules.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Stitching enterprise virtual private networks (VPNS) with cloud virtual private clouds (VPCS)
Patent No. 11991042

Inventor(s): Linda Dunbar (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Huawei Technologies, Inc. (Shenzhen, , CN)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18170718 on 02/17/2023 (459 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are presented to stitch existing virtual private networks (VPNs), such as MPLS based VPNs, with virtual private clouds (VPCs) in public cloud data centers. The stitching architecture can be realized by configuring a virtual routing application (VRA) in the VPCs and configuring virtual routing applications and a virtual routing application controller in the existing VPN. For VPCs in public clouds that do not have a VRA, traffic can be default routed to VPCs with a VRA.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Resource orchestration for multiple services
Patent No. 11991090

Inventor(s): Shankar Ramanathan (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Edell, Shapiro Finnan, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17969345 on 10/19/2022 (580 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of orchestrating one or more radio resources among various services executing within a container. The method includes obtaining, by an orchestration engine executing on a network device, a request, from a first service of a plurality of services, for use of a physical/hardware resource that connects a container running on the network device to a network. The request from the first service has a particular priority. The plurality of services execute within the container. The method further includes determining whether to connect the first service to the network via the physical/hardware resource based on the priority and an availability status of the physical/hardware resource and establishing, at a kernel level, a connection between the first service and the physical/hardware resource based on the determining.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Multicarrier-based data transmission method and apparatus in mobile communication system
Patent No. 11991098

Inventor(s): Aris Papasakellariou (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: Jefferson IP Law, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17843481 on 06/17/2022 (704 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multicarrier-based data transmission method and an apparatus for use in a mobile communication system are provided. A Radio Network Temporary Identity (RNTI) reception method of a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting inter-evolved Node B (eNB) carrier aggregation includes receiving cell information on at least one activated cell under control of an eNB, configuring first and second RNTIs allocated by the eNB, monitoring the at least one activated cell for the first RNTI, and monitoring a primary cell among the at least one activated cell for the second RNTI.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Mobile cellular network backhaul
Patent No. 11991143

Inventor(s): Dennis Niermann (Richardson, TX), Vincent Graffagnino (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): Oceus Networks, LLC (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17670171 on 02/11/2022 (830 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mobile cellular network (MCN) communication system can provide an independent mobile cellular network to devices within a covered area. In addition, the MCN communication system can communicate with other MCN communication systems using a wireless standard that is similar to the wireless standard used to communicate with user equipment within the covered area. In some instances, the MCN communication system can be registered as a user equipment of another MCN communication system and/or have another MCN communication system registered with it as a user equipment.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Seamless MAC address rotation in multi-link device using multiple IP stacks
Patent No. 11991144

Inventor(s): Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Edell, Shapiro Finnan, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17731335 on 04/28/2022 (754 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method comprising: at a multi-link device (MLD) configured for multi-link operation: establishing a first Internet Protocol (IP) stack of a first IP type and configured with a first IP address of the first IP type, wherein the first IP stack is associated to a first MLD media access control (MAC) address of a first station of the MLD; establishing a second IP stack of a second IP type and configured with a second IP address of the second IP type, wherein the second IP stack exists concurrently with the first IP stack and is associated to a second MLD MAC address of a second station of the MLD; and exchanging, with a peer MLD, IP traffic using one or more of (i) the first IP stack and the first MLD MAC address, and (ii) the second IP stack and the second MLD MAC address.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Multi-channel cognitive resource platform
Patent No. 11991256

Inventor(s): Maruthi Shanmugam (Plano, TX), Ramakrishna R. Yannam (Plano, TX), Shahram Khosraviani (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17201052 on 03/15/2021 (1163 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing a multi-channel cognitive resource platform configured for intelligent, proactive and responsive communication with a user, via a user device. The system is further configured to perform one or more user activities, in an integrated manner, within a single interface of the user device, without requiring the user to operate disparate applications. Furthermore, the system is configured to receive user input through multiple communication channels such as a textual communication channel and an audio communication channel. The system is further configured to switch between the various communication channels seamlessly, and in real-time.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Method and apparatus for cryptographically aligning and binding a secure element with a host device
Patent No. 11991276

Inventor(s): Giuseppe Pilozzi (North Attleboro, MA)
Assignee(s): STMICROELECTRONICS, INC. (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17939385 on 09/07/2022 (622 days app to issue)

Abstract: A secure element device that is configured to be cryptographically bound to a host device includes a secure element host key slot configured to store host key information that allows only the host device to control the secure element, a secure memory storing binding information, and limited functionality allowing the binding information to be read from the secure memory by the host device during a binding process. The binding information is cryptographically correlated with the host key information. The host key information is generated by the host device using the binding information read from the secure element and a secret key. The secure element device further includes general functionality only accessible to the host device using the host key information that is generated by the host device. The secure memory includes prevention measures impeding unauthorized entities from obtaining information from the secure memory.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Live assist systems and methods with real time scoring of agent performance
Patent No. 11991310

Inventor(s): Danny Ray Harlin (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): OPEN TEXT HOLDINGS, INC. (Menlo Park, CA)
Law Firm: Sprinkle IP Law Group (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17893988 on 08/23/2022 (637 days app to issue)

Abstract: A new approach to agent performance evaluation includes real-time transcription of a call or chat from a customer and a real-time scorecard analysis performed on an agent’s device as the agent and the customer communicate with each other. The real-time scorecard analysis may be conducted based on a set of live score rules from the server side. The agent can get an immediate scoring feedback through a user interface on the agent’s device. Additional analyses, such as a sentiment analysis, a summary analysis, etc., can be performed on the server side and displayed to the agent through the user interface on the agent’s device. The agent’s automatically generated performance score can be made available to the agent’s manager, on-demand and/or in real time, allowing the manager to monitor, evaluate, and/or manage the agent’s performance even as the agent converses or chats with the customer.

[H04M] TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08)

System, method and computer-readable medium for provisioning dual-homed voice call continuity
Patent No. 11991579

Inventor(s): Andrew Silver (Frisco, TX), Lathan W. Lewis (Dallas, TX), Patricia A. Landgren (Plano, TX), Steven E. Tryon (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TANGO NETWORKS, INC. (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17839250 on 06/13/2022 (708 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium for concurrent support of Voice Call Continuity (VCC) capabilities in both the enterprise space and the carrier space are provided. The enterprise VCC functionality is used when the user is located in the enterprise domain which does not impact the carrier’s network while the carrier VCC capability is used when the user is located in the carrier domain to support seamless handover between the wireless networks that the carrier may offer. The carrier VCC anchoring point and the enterprise VCC anchoring point may communicate with each other to confirm and inform the other anchoring point that a call handover is occurring or will occur.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods and apparatus for multi-shot network parameter optimization
Patent No. 11991581

Inventor(s): Hao Chen (Allen, TX), Jianzhong Zhang (Plano, TX), Lianjun Li (McKinney, TX), Zhou Zhou (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17384676 on 07/23/2021 (1033 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method of a base station are configured to enable a multi-shot network parameter optimization. The method includes generating one or more specified Key Performance Indicators (KPI) constraints based on a selected set of KPIs. The method also includes adjusting common beam parameters to tune a common beam based on the selected set of KPIs. The common beam is tuned to satisfy the one or more specified KPI constraints. The method also includes adjusting handover A2 and A5 parameters based on searching within a three-dimensional space defined by specified A2 and A5 thresholds. The method further includes transmitting one or more signals based on the adjusted the common beam parameters and the adjusted handover A2 and A5 parameters.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Environmental conditions monitoring system
Patent No. 11991614

Inventor(s): Christopher Russell (The Colony, TX), Nolan Serrao (Plano, TX), Ryan Thomas Russell (The Colony, TX), Victor Kwak (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18175994 on 02/28/2023 (448 days app to issue)

Abstract: A conditions monitoring system may include a system controller. The controller may include a device processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include instructions executable by the device processor to perform the following steps: receiving positional data from a plurality of wearable devices of a plurality of associated wearers; making a determination of a possible dangerous environmental condition based on data received from the wearable device, including the positional data; applying one or more filters to eliminate false positive determinations of possible dangerous conditions; and providing instructions, based on the determination of a possible dangerous environmental condition, to the wearable device for the wearer to follow.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Node configuration and self-healing for ad hoc networks
Patent No. 11991616

Inventor(s): Ariton E. Xhafa (Plano, TX), Jianwei Zhou (Allen, TX), Xiaolin Lu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18064636 on 12/12/2022 (526 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network includes at least one node to communicate with at least one other node via a wireless network protocol. The node includes a network configuration module to periodically switch a current node function of the node between an intermediate node function and a leaf node function. The switch of the current node function enables automatic reconfiguration of the wireless network based on detected communications between the at least one node and at least one intermediate node or at least one leaf node via the wireless network protocol.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Power dissipation reduction in wireless transceivers
Patent No. 11991626

Inventor(s): Yannis Tsividis (New York, NY)
Assignee(s): THETA IP, LLC (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Nixon Peabody LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18112452 on 02/21/2023 (455 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and circuits for reducing power dissipation in wireless transceivers and other electronic circuits and systems. Embodiments of the present invention use bias current reduction, impedance scaling, and gain changes either separately or in combination to reduce power dissipation. For example, bias currents are reduced in response to a need for reduced signal handling capability, impedances are scaled thus reducing required drive and other bias currents in response to a strong received signal, or gain is increased and impedances are scaled in response to a low received signal in the presence of no or weak interfering signals.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Apparatus and method for TWT operation for multi-link devices
Patent No. 11991629

Inventor(s): Boon Loong Ng (Plano, TX), Rubayet Shafin (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17676645 on 02/21/2022 (820 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for facilitating broadcast target wake time (TWT) operation in a wireless local area network. The apparatuses include a non-access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) comprising a transceiver and a processor operably coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to perform a multi-link (ML) setup operation with an AP MLD to set up links between the STAs affiliated with the non-AP MLD and corresponding APs affiliated with the AP MLD, negotiate a broadcast TWT agreement over a first link between a first STA and a first AP of the AP MLD, wherein the broadcast TWT agreement is for a shared TWT session including a group of the links, and after the broadcast TWT agreement is successfully negotiated, apply the broadcast TWT agreement to the group of links.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Combining long eDRX periods and custom PSM cycles
Patent No. 11991634

Inventor(s): Jeff Bartlett (Dallas, TX), Robert Holden (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA), ATT Mobility II LLC (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Guntin Gust, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18169398 on 02/15/2023 (461 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, system, computer readable storage medium, or apparatus provides for or both the use of long extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) and long power saving mode (PSM) without having to wait for the activity timer expiration.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Determining geolocation of devices in a communication network
Patent No. 11991661

Inventor(s): Imran Hafeez (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): NETSCOUT SYSTEMS TEXAS, LLC (Westford, MA)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18198409 on 05/17/2023 (370 days app to issue)

Abstract: A machine learning method performed by a communication network monitoring device in which an incoming signaling record is received that includes radio signal attributes from a UE in the cellular communication network. A determination is made as to whether the UE incoming signaling record contains location (GPS) data. If the UE incoming signaling record contains GPS data, a machine learning model is generated for determining a location of future UEs in the communication network utilizing the GPS data and the radio signal attributes from the incoming UE signaling record. And if GPS data is not included in the UE incoming signaling record, then first a corrected TA value is determined which is then used, along with other radio signal attributes of the UE, to determine/predict a geolocation for the UE using machine learning techniques.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for fast beam management
Patent No. 11991682

Inventor(s): Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18053307 on 11/07/2022 (561 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for fast beam selection. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving configuration information on a set of transmission configuration information (TCI) states. Each of the TCI states refers to at least one source reference signal (RS) with a corresponding quasi co-location (QCL) and is associated with downlink (DL) data and UE-specific DL control information (DCI). The method further includes receiving a TCI state update on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), decoding the TCI state update, and applying the TCI state update to a reception of DL data and a corresponding UE-specific DL assignment.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for transitioning between operating modes associated with bandwidth parts for efficient battery consumption
Patent No. 11991727

Inventor(s): Chin Chiu (Allen, TX), Jack Anthony Smith (Melissa, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17645159 on 12/20/2021 (883 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may determine traffic information of a user equipment (UE) operating in a first operating mode. The first operating mode may be associated with the UE monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), via a first bandwidth part (BWP), according to a first rate. The device may determine, based on the traffic information, that the UE is to operate in a different operating mode including one of: a second operating mode associated with monitoring the PDCCH, via the first BWP, according to a second rate exceeding the first rate, a third operating mode associated with monitoring the PDCCH, via a second BWP less than the first BWP, according to the second rate, or a fourth operating mode associated with monitoring the PDCCH, via the second BWP, according to the first rate. The device may cause the UE to transition to the different operating mode.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Request to establish protocol data unit session with time sensitive network parameters
Patent No. 11991761

Inventor(s): Jayshree Bharatia (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Ofinno, LLC (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18195140 on 05/09/2023 (378 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method may include receiving, by a wireless device from a time sensitive network, TSN, translator device, one or more TSN parameters. The method may also include sending, by the wireless device to an access and mobility management function (AMF), a non access stratum, NAS, message indicating a request to establish a protocol data unit (PDU) session comprising the one or more TSN parameters. The method may further include receiving, by the wireless device from the AMF, a message indicating acceptance of the PDU session.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Electrical devices with electrodes on softening polymers and methods of manufacturing thereof
Patent No. 11991836

Inventor(s): Gregory T. Ellson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18102060 on 01/26/2023 (481 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electrical device, comprising a softening polymer layer, an electrode layer on a surface of the softening polymer layer and a cover polymer layer on the surface of the softening polymer layer. An opening in the polymer cover layer is filled with a reflowed solder, one end of the reflowed solder, located inside the opening, contacts a contact pad site portion of the electrode layer, and another end of the reflowed solder contacts an electrical connector electrode of the device.

[H05K] PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS (details of instruments or comparable details of other apparatus not otherwise provided for G12B; thin-film or thick-film circuits H01L 27/01, H01L 27/13; non-printed means for electric connections to or between printed circuits H01R; casings for, or constructional details of, particular types of apparatus, see the relevant subclasses; processes involving only a single technical art, e.g. heating, spraying, for which provision exists elsewhere, see the relevant classes)

Three-dimensional memory device with off-center or reverse slope staircase regions and methods for forming the same
Patent No. 11991881

Inventor(s): Hiroyuki Ogawa (Nagoya, , JP), Hiroyuki Tanaka (Yokkaichi, , JP)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17226321 on 04/09/2021 (1138 days app to issue)

Abstract: A three-dimensional memory device includes alternating stacks of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, and memory stack structures vertically extending through a respective one of the alternating stacks and located within the first memory array region and the second memory array region. An inter-array region containing lower and upper staircases is located between the first and the second memory array regions. The first memory array region may have a greater length than the second memory array region, or the lower staircase may generally ascend in an opposite direction from the upper staircase.

[H10B] ELECTRONIC MEMORY DEVICES

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